Business Development Executive

About the Role  

We are seeking an experienced Next.js Developer with minimum 6 years of hands-on experience to join our development team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in architecting scalable applications, deploying projects, and writing robust test cases. You will play a key role in the full software development lifecycle, from initial concept and architecture through deployment and maintenance.  

Key Responsibilities  

·       Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, scalable web applications using Next.js  

·       Architect project structure for maintainability, scalability, and performance, following best practices for folder and component organization  

·       Lea d and participate in project deployments using modern CI/CD pipelines and cloud platforms. AWS is must  

·       Write comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end test cases using frameworks like Jest, React Testing Library, or Cypress  

·       Collaborate with cross-functional teams (designers, backend developers, product managers) to deliver seamless user experiences and integrate APIs (REST/GraphQL)  

·       Optimize applications for SEO, server-side rendering (SSR), static site generation (SSG), and performance  

·       Conduct code reviews, enforce coding standards, and mentor junior developers  

·       Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve issues across the stack to ensure reliability and security  

·       Maintain technical documentation, including architecture decisions, deployment guides, and test plans  

  Required Skills and Qualifications  

·       Development experience of 6+ years in Reactjs and Nextjs (preferred)  

·       Proven expertise in Leading, architecting and organizing large-scale Nextjs projects.  

·       Hands-on experience with project deployment and cloud platform as AWS (preferred)  

·       Strong proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, MaterialUI and CSS Frameworks  

·       Experience writing and maintaining test cases using Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, or similar tools  

·       Familiarity with state management libraries (Redux, Context API) and API integration (REST, GraphQL)  

·       Working knowledge of version control systems (Git) and CI/CD pipelines (preferred)  

·       Solid understanding of SSR, SSG, and SEO best practices  

·       Excellent problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills  

·       Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (preferred)  

Nice to Have  

·       Experience with CSS frameworks (Tailwind, Bootstrap, Sass)  

·       Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and monitoring tools.  

·       Contributions to open-source Next.js projects or technical blogs.  

• Roles & Responsibilities
• Job Purpose:
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• To manage the store operations of the respective store efficiently and run it as a successful unit through effective stock management, visual merchandising and achieve the desired sales targets while ensuring the customer service of highest standards.
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• Job Context & Major Challenges:
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• A store manager has to manage the storel operations, and at the same time achieve the sales target within a stipulated budget allocated for the store. The store manager has to manage the relationship with the visual merchandising team, projects ,HR ,buying team to ensure that the upkeep training, recruitment, the maintenance of the store are proper, and has to report to the regional manager .
• The major challenges of the jobholder are:
• Lack of responsibility shown by the CCAs after few months of recruitment, low discipline levels • Screening of right candidate for accurate hiring
• Consistency of the sales inspite of daily challenges
• Consistency in delivery TC Experience daily
• Inventory management
• Rostering / people management / grievance
• Accountabilities
• Establish rapport with potential and actual customers on a daily basis • Ensure clean and safe environment for the customer
• Ensures Daily capture of customer information & Bill linking – identify gaps and suggest improvement
• Looks into pattern of information and draw inference on customer types /likings/trends /quality of information captured
• Thank you cards / Calls – process adhered to ( Tracking and ensuring business results and quality call outs
• Ensure every customer gets TC delight 100% adherence of experience delivered
• Ensure that customers become repeat customers once they enter the store.Personally develop relations with top 50 customers of the store • Track customer sales closely across segments /types on a weekly basis • Supervise customer needs and looks at new ideas to delight.
• Performance chats on a monthly basis with individuals
• 24 hours resolution for crew grievance /if escalation to close within 7 days
• Take the initiative at the store level to improve the employee engagement
• Ensure Development plan for Coache’s and their teams is managed well on a quarterly basis..
• Appraisals – Quarterly chats on performance as per KRA
• Ensure there is development plan prepared for all store

People Management

Motivate the staff during the morning briefing about daily sales targets • Rostering , Schedule shifts and ensure punctuality of staff

HR Overview

• Screening for New hires as per Evaluation matrix
• Closure of timely recruitments
• Monthly StoreTraining Calendar adhered to , and gaps are filled on a monthly basis
• Weekly Audits and check on understanding on new joinee training • Ensure 100% adherence that every customer get TC Delight - manages evaluations and trainings for the team - issues with customers sorted within 24 hours - Observes coaches and ASM and take inputs for their Teams - Training needs identified and discussed with L&D for resolution

Visual Merchandising

• Implementation of the plan along with the VM champ
• VM changes at the suitable times in the store
• Replenishment of stocks on the floor
• Ensure VM Guidelines are met before store opening and during the day • Ensures daily actions are taken on VM opening checklist
• Window Maintenance – Ensures standards are met – does a walk thru twice a day
• Gives feedback on sections before pictures are taken and sent to HO • Display change – ensures activity done and time lines adhered to • Fixture maintainace –ensures problems are timely fixed.
• New GTM Window installations – timely done
• Track sales from merchandise going to stylists

Standard Operating Procedures

• Ensures that store opening/closing standards are followed properly,if gaps helps improve system
• Drives Store PnL
• Responsible for personnel planning, work hours, store / team holiday plan
• Inventory management and planning for each product category • Drives Store CRM Managements
• Ensure Timely closure on MIS / Reports Etc Ensure that the housekeeping staff follows the checklist properly
• Control mechanical maintenance of lights, air-system, electrical equipment

Accountabilities

• Reports property damage, request needed repairs within company time frames
• Conducts monthly meetings with different stakeholders
• Ensure proper installation of signage display façade properly cleaned • Daily Counts – Supervision of accuracy and timely reports sent. • Inward /Outward – Resigters maintained ,weekly supervision on dispatch / signs off on compliance
• Manages External Relations –Landlords / Mall team/ vendors

Cost Management

• Schedule the expenditures for the month(petty cash management)
• Follow the preventive maintenance schedule to reduce the costs
• Maintain the safety, energy consumption, and expenses reports
• Control costs incurred on the services provided by the vendors
• Control cash deposits and submission of credit slips on a daily basis
• Maintain records pertaining to customer discounts, schemes
• DMS – Supervision of DMS entry weekly and sufficient funds for store to run

Achievement of sales targets

• Explain & drive the sales targets to Managers on a daily basis • Coordinates with RM on Monthly Targets
• Contribute to the team efforts for accomplishing desired results by setting objectives and directions for KPI’s ,category revenue, competiton analysis,market trends
• Analyze sales very 3 hours to better daily performance
• SMS to be sent to the RM as required
• Motivate store team to achieve daily targets
• Understand Business on a MTD/WTD/FTDbasis and briefs coaches .

Shrinkage control

• Ensure the global count is done accurately on a daily basis and reports sent to HO
• Ensure that nobody from the staff indulges in pilferage and other activities
• Co-ordinate with security guard & staff to keep a watchful eye on customers
• Anticipate problems & preempt them by coming up with creative solutions
• Constantly identifies areas of improvement, takes initiative to drive them

People Management- Demonstrates ability to holistically monitor various HR analytics like workforce planning, staffing levels, engagement scores, salary costs, attrition levels

Competencies- Works with individuals to identify areas of development, works to improve them

Work Standards- Sets standards for excellence to achieve a high level of quality • Accepts responsibility of outcomes of one’s work; admits mistakes and refocuses efforts

Provides encouragement and support to others in accepting responsibility; does not accept others’ denial responsibility without questioning

Raises the bar and repeatedly encourages the team to continually improve. Allocates appropriate resources to get the work done • Provides clear, thorough & timely feedback on work performance to individuals.

Gets Results- Raises the bar and repeatedly encourages the team to continually improve. Allocates appropriate resources to get the work done • Provides clear, thorough & timely feedback on work performance to individuals

Customer Relations- Works to educate the customers so that they are fully aware of products Establishes good interpersonal relationships by helping people feel valued

Handles upset customers by hearing the customer, empathizing, apologizing, and taking personal responsibility for resolving customer problems/issues

Team Work- Builds strong teams that capitalize on differences in expertise, competencies

Champions collaborative team working across departments/ functions • Proactively works with colleagues to develop solutions to their issues

DUTIES / ACCOUNTABILITIES

Responsibilities include, but may not be restricted to:

• Analyze an organization and understand its processes and systems, to define the current state of the process (as is process map) and documenting relevant information needed to determine automation potential. The examples are as below :

• Process steps, number of applications involved, and process steps per application
• Process volumes, including any seasonal variations.
• FTE needed to execute the process
• Average handling time
• Process interdependencies
• Target SLA , Financial or regulatory points associated with the process.
• Process error rate, error volumes, and exception handling steps
• % of process steps including paper, voice, digital etc.

• Define the future state and/or business solution to automate the defined processes by designing the to-be process maps that includes some of the following information:

• Identifying & documenting clearly
  • The steps in the process suited for automation
  • The source systems, work queues, the flow of the steps, the decision points, the exception paths, and the business rules
  • Outputs and exceptional handling scenarios
  • Scenarios and test data
• Reduction in Average handling, and FTE takeout as a result of automation
• Recommendations to alter or reengineer process to improve automation potential
• Processes that are not suitable, or would not lend any return on investment

• Ensures the designs are documented within the defined project timelines, and with quality.
• Performs Quality Control via reviews of the design created by other business analysts.
• Responsible for receiving the sign-off on the design from the customer, and place the design under configuration control.
• Serves as the functional expert for the development and test teams.
• Resolve queries/issues from the development and test teams.

 KEY SKILLS

• 6 - 10 years of experience in requirements gathering, requirement management, gap analysis and SDLC.
• Working experience as a process architect/business analyst
• Experienced in writing Use Cases and High Level Functional cum Technical analysis deliverables
• Experience in working with key business representatives, data owners, end users, application designers and data architects to model current & to be processes.
• Eye for detail and good documentation skills are needed
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal essential
• Strong ability to understand the steps of a process that lend itself to automation. Knowledge of key features of the automation product is needed.
• Advanced problem solving and analytical skills. 
• Ability to multi task in a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities:

- Design, develop, and execute automated test scripts for trading applications.

- Work with product owners and business analysts to understand and write the acceptance test cases.

- Collaborate with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and create test plans.

- Perform regression, performance, and end to end testing to ensure software reliability.

- Identify, document, and track defects using appropriate tools and methodologies.

- Maintain and enhance existing test automation frameworks for both frontend and backend.

- Report on coverage, functionality, defect aging, closure reports to the stakeholders so that they know the stability of releases.

- Integrate automation cases into CI/CD pipelines

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

- Proven 5+ Years experience in automation testing for web and backend applications.

- Strong knowledge of testing frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, JUnit, TestNG, Playwright).

- Experience with API testing tools (e.g., Postman, SoapUI, RestAssured).

- Familiarity with programming languages such as Java, Python, or JavaScript.

- Understanding of basic SQL queries to validate data in the databases

- Understanding of CI/CD processes and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI).

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

- Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.

- Prior experience with trading applications or core financial services related applications is a big plus

Are you good at visualizing things? Do you like telling stories via visuals? We are building out our product marketing team, and you are the kind of help we need. No matter how engaging and strong our content is, it won’t work with just a giant block of text. We need help to tell these stories in a visually engaging way with a relevant tone. We are looking for a strong individual contributor who is excited about making sense of complex concepts, thrives on ambiguity, and loves coming up with ideas and bringing them alive through design.

• You’ll be expected to understand our brand identity and create a visual identity guideline for different touchpoints.
• You’ll be involved throughout the design process from the concept stage to delivery.
• You’ll develop visual assets for various campaigns across channels to increase the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.
• You’ll design digital content assets that are pivotal to communicate with our prospects and customers in the international markets.
• You'll be responsible to create and own imagery style on customer-facing assets such as Website, emails & collaterals, etc.

• You understand the global technology consumer and the relevant design sensibilities.
• You start all design work with a problem statement, goal, and context.
• Your work is conceptually clear and visually stunning.
• You are well versed with contemporary imagery style and have the skill set to create them.
• You have a high level of competency in most of the applications of Adobe CC.
• You have worked on contemporary design tools like Figma that enable team collaboration.
• Have spent the last 3-6 years of your career on digital design projects at agencies, design focused startups with exposure to international markets.
• You have a portfolio to showcase.

You will be working closely with the product marketing team and report to the marketing head. You will be interacting with all the customer-facing teams such as the marketing, sales & customer success teams. Your initiatives will help them improve their success metrics as well.

A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment that will enable you to juggle between concepts, yet maintain the quality of content, interact and share your ideas and have loads of learning while at work. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being at Xoxoday.

A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, Mumbai, SF, Dubai, Singapore, and Dublin. We have three products in our portfolio: Plum, Empuls, and Compass. Xoxoday works with over 1000 global clients. We help our clients in engaging and motivating their employees, sales teams, channel partners or consumers for better business results.